Dear Bell Canada employees and members of IBEW Local 435, Unifor, and TEAM-IFPTE,
Last week a message was posted by the company on Bell Net updating you on the status of the Pay Equity exercise taking place at Bell Canada.
This exercise was to be completed by September 4, 2024. However given that this exercise is complex and deals with over the 11,000 employees of Bell covered by 8 different collective agreements in 4 different operations, delays were somewhat expected.
In August the company did signify their interest in extending the exercise in order to complete it. Naturally, your union representatives on the committee did not object it, as it will give us more time to complete our mandate thoroughly to the benefit of our members.
On Friday September 6, we were informed by the Pay Equity Commissioner that a one time extension was granted with a new end date of August 31st 2025.
It is important to note that should the exercise results in an increase in pay for some of our members, this increase will be retroactively applied with interest back to September 4 2024.
In solidarity,
IBEW LU 435